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What Makes Musicians So Sarcastic? is a collection of Peanuts comic strips. This book includes
cartoons from Peanuts Every Sunday from the years 1958 -
1961 and It's a Dog's Life, Charlie Brown from the years 1960 - 1962. All of the comic strips appear in black and white.
The first third of the book is Sunday comics and the final two-thirds of
the book is Daily comics.
This collection contains the following
storylines: Buried Blanket, Naturally Curly Hair, Baseball Season, Sally
Likes Linus, Frieda Gets a Cat, The First Game of the Season, Charlie
Brown Steals Home, Library Fever, Freeway Through Snoopy's Doghouse,
Last Game of the Season, and Blanket-Hating Gramma.
On October
2, 1950, Peanuts
debuted
in seven newspapers
and ran until January
3, 2000 when Charles M. Schulz bid a fond farewell to all his readers in
the final daily Peanuts newspaper strip. On February
12, 2000, Charles Schulz died on a Saturday evening, of complications
from colon cancer in Santa Rosa, CA. He was 77 years old. On February
13, 2000, the final Sunday Peanuts newspaper strip appeared. "Charles
M. Schulz
(b. 1922) is the most widely syndicated cartoonist in history, with his
work appearing in over 2,300 newspapers. He has published more than
1,400 books, won Peabody and Emmy awards for his animated specials, and
is responsible for the most-produced musical in the American theatre,
entitled "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown". And all this
diversity and recognition and continuous success began over
50
years ago." (Illustration
House)
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